Is the academic speaking as a representative of Japan, or are you making him one? I can’t read the paywalled article. Looks like he’s just an ‘expert’ with an opinion. If it’s blindly capitalist and doesn’t include debatable geopolitical analysis, address that.
Are you kneejerking because you are playing team sports? I suggest you improve your public discourse to avoid essentialism, it will build better arguments and be more convincing.
My everydaycarry is a Fenix AA, about 10 years old.
Uses today included: checking on the henhouse, and going out back to smoke a joint, and I stuck it in my mouth to hang the hummingbird feeder. Before dark, I used it to help me vacuum in a hurry before guests arrive (lay it on the floor to highlight everything needing a cleanup), to look into a corner of the car trunk, to poke around in the storage room briefly, and at work to better look into the guts of a computer.
My swiss army knife got used a few times today, too. Different blades and tools. I’m semi-rural so dont leave the bedroom without those two items.
I have been in a flood that turned the land into a lake, horizon to horizon. Densely populated. Utterly devastating. The railway was elevated enough to get between two mid-sized cities, and on the 12km trek I saw an amazing amount of compassion, mutual aid, and casual, natural-feeling grassroots organization to just get on with life.
I have been in a few crises and minor disasters, come to think of it. I think generally, most people like banding together and helping out when shit gets crazy.
Capitalism overruling democracy.
I would be so mad if I was a producer, and there was only one copy of anything important.
Oh, so, like my coworkers then.
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Well the Test now includes casual tasks like counting letters, doesn’t it? You have to move your head in a certain way to spot the leopard in the shaded forest.
lol now try an extraction shooter like Marathon. Fantastic game but the genre intentionally puts you through loss after loss, especially at first. It’s a lesson in detachment.
Hero shooters can be like that too, but it’s not core to the genre I think.
Uh nope. Well almost, RTFA:
He reportedly beat rival candidate Lenin Vladimir Rodríguez Valverde after campaigning on the slogan “I’m the good Hitler”.
Missed the point, friend
Toughen up, sunshine!
No but seriously it’s fine for most people except deep in winter, and you can get a heated add-on bidet if there’s power nearby.
I stashed the cutlery caddy because our dishwasher has a third rack for utensils, and you just scoop up a big handful of cutlery to put away which turns out to be way less fussy.
I think it’s a joke? Homophobic, but mocking the abuse pattern in question.
Windsor Plywood has quite a few franchises.
Are you justifying external repression with internal oppression?
Tell me more about the history of Bhutan and Ladakh, vs Tibet, and the state of well-being after they modernized so rapidly. Consider the role of self determination and the adaptability of the plateau culture when not under the boot. Consider what colonial suppression has done to Ladakhis in India, vs China.
Yep:
Yeah it’s like trying to have a conversation with MAGA. It’s a pigeon strutting all over the board knocking over pieces and declaring victory.
When the revolutions come, guess who is eager to put dissenters against the wall? Even those who helped. History knows.
You’re just making shit up
I didn’t call you Russian because I disagree with you, I called you Russian because you are acting like a troll, and those particular trolls are pretty notable and fairly well documented.
Another clue about being a troll is how immediately you jump to xenophobia. I guess you possibly don’t realize that you haven’t presented any ideas here, just statements and insults. Sad, if true, because you are sabotaging real dialogue and just deterring potential allies.
Please don’t consider yourself representative of leftists. It’s a wide spectrum, and Marxist-Leninists come in all flavours, but do not represent the entirety of the critique of capital or power.
Your “arguments” are complaints and ad hominem insults. You aren’t trying to convince anyone with that trollish method.
Saying that her argument is incoherent because she’s a liberal isn’t an argument, it’s echo chamber circular proclamation.
You should read some Gramsci. Dogma will just sink the ship.
Nah, liberal democracies are generally partly socialist in limited but notable ways, and common property is not unusual. Nobody is massacring groups over the ideological principle of public highways, or nature preserves, or recreation centres, or national corporations. I mean, in Canada, for instance, people died due to colonialism, but that’s a different, if related story. It’s a very capitalist society with a bunch of popular collective property and “crown” (nominally state-owned) corporations.
Economic systems historically overlap. We still have shreds of feudalism hanging around.